Mark T. Greenberg

Mark T. Greenberg (born December 31, 1951) is an American child psychologist and professor. He is the emeritus holder of The Bennett Endowed Chair in Prevention Research in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development, and founding director of the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the chair of CREATE for Education, a non-profit organization that promotes caring and compassion in education. under the mentoring of Mary D. S. Ainsworth and Robert S. Marvin.

Career After serving on the faculty of the University of Washington from 1977 to 1997, he joined the department of Human Development and Family Studies at the Pennsylvania State University as the first Bennett Chair of Prevention Research and held that position from 1997 until 2019. He founded the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development in 1998 and was the director until 2015. including Nathaniel Riggs, director of the Colorado State University Prevention Research Center.

Research Greenberg was involved in the development of numerous evidence-based interventions focused on children’s well-being. In 1980, with Carol A. Kusché he co-authored the PATHS program, an evidence-based social and emotional learning curriculum now used in thousands of schools around the world. In 1990, he joined the Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group to develop and test the Fast Track Intervention – an integrated multiple-tier model for supporting all children to succeed in school and life. He has been a collaborator in the development and/or evaluation of numerous interventions including PROSPER for youth development, Communities That Care, and the Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE) and Community Approach to Learning Mindfully (CALM) mindfulness programs for educators. He was the co-director of the Family Life Project, an ongoing, long-term study of the biological, individual, family and community influences that affect the development of rural children.

Selected works Greenberg has published more than 350 peer-reviewed scientific papers, chapters, and books, including: He received the Research Scientist Award from the Society for Prevention Research (2002), the Society for Research in Child Development Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy for Children Award (2009), the Society for Prevention Research Presidential Award (2013), and the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society from the American Psychological Association (2016). He is one of the founders of the Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning and a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association.

Philanthropy He and his wife, Christa Turksma, endowed the annual Compassion Lecture at the Pennsylvania State University.